Harry, I have used the search engine at http://virtual.park.uga.edu/~mkozusko/spenser/fqsearch.html for instant concordance in the past, but when I tried your search just now, the page was down. Perhaps someone else on the list knows whether it is gone or only resting. At 05:36 PM 5/8/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Believe it or not, I write this to all the List members deliberately, >with all my two inwits about me, on my knees, in profound humility >and an agony of need, in a word, with a question. Can anybody with >Concordance-like capabilities give me a quick fix on occurrences of >the word "male" in The FQ? > >Harry > Marshall Grossman Professor Department of English University of Maryland 3101 SQH College Park, MD 20742